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placename:-
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Irton Fell
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parish
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Irton with Santon parish,
once in Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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hill; fell
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coordinates:-
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NY136024
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10Km square:-
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NY10
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NY1302 |
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descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes,
later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley,
published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J
Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale,
Cumbria, 1823 onwards. |
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goto source.
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Page 149:-
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A variety of granite with reddish felspar, and which from a
deficiency of mica, has sometimes been
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Page 151:-
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called sienite, forms the two inferior mountain ridges,
called Irton Fell and Muncaster Fell; ... It contains veins
of red hematite and micaceous iron ore. ...
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date:-
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1823
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1820s
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old print:- |
Linton 1852
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Guide book, A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway, guide to the Lake District etc, by John Linton,
published by Whittaker and Co, London, etc,
1852. |
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Print, engraving, outline views, Mountains as Seen from
the Esk Viaduct, the Eskmeals Viaduct, and Mountains as Seen
from the Viaduct near Drigg, the Irt Viaduct, Whitehaven and
Furness Junction Railway, Cumberland, engraved by W H
Lizars, Edinburgh, published by Whittaker and Co, London,
and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon,
Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852.
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Tipped in opposite p.86 of A Handbook of the Whitehaven
and Furness Railway, by John Linton.
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placename:-
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Irton Fell
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date:-
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1852
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period:-
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19th century, late
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hearsay |
Herdwick sheep are found on the fell. Legend says that the
breed arrived when a group of Herdwicks swam ashore from a
wrecked Viking ship off Ravenglass.
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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